My Father, the Messiah

Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. She is author of Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, and In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.

• Prologue2013 East Jerusalem2013 Tel Aviv1991 Geha and Petach Tikvah2016 Los Angeles1992 Tel Aviv1989 Tel Aviv1987 Tel Aviv1989–1995 Tel Aviv2013 Tel Aviv2013–2015 Los Angeles2016 1976–1985 1970–1975 Los Angeles ● Ann Arbor and Bloomington ● Chapel Hill2016–2017 Los Angeles2018 1980–1986 New York1972–1976 Chapel Hill2020–2022 New YorkJanuary 2023 New YorkJanuary 2018 Tel AvivApril 2023 Petach TikvahMay 2023 1949–1963 New York2023–2024 New York2023–2024 New YorkAugust 2024 RebordÕesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"A powerful account of watching a loved one descend into mental illness and the messy, emotional process of retroactively trying to come to grips with a parent’s life and legacy. It’s an insightful portrait of one woman grappling with the weight of personal history."—Publishers Weekly"Over the course of the book, the interplay of various elements of Hochberg’s and her dad’s lives yields a compelling portrait of someone slowly coming to terms with the death of a loved one. Readers who have dealt with similar tumult in their own lives will likely feel a strong connection with this work. Those with a specific interest in Jewish history and culture will also treasure the book as a deeply reported account of late-20th-century Jewish life amid various social upheavals. A compelling and well-crafted family portrait."—Kirkus